Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Resources

A collection of resources curated for psychiatric-mental health nurses: From toolkits to graduate school listings, the APNA Resource Center is your first access point for information on topics across the spectrum of psychiatric-mental health nursing.

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Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Facts for Families: Attachment Disorders

Resource for families about Reactive Attachment Disorder and Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder with treatment recommendations.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Advancement in the child attachment interview and the child and adolescent reflective functioning scale using a PDM-2 framework

This article investigates the informative power of the child attachment interview and the child and adolescent reflective functioning scale for overall understanding of mental functioning and personality with two clinical

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Attachment measures in middle childhood and adolescence

A systematic review of 54 studies. The Child Attachment Interview has the best psychometric properties of the interview and projective measures, and the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment the

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Early TRAuma-Related Disorders Questionnaire (ETRADQ)

A caregiver report developed to assess attachment disorders in school-age children based on DSM-5 criteria. This study validated this instrument.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Reactive Attachment Disorder and attachment theory from infancy to adolescence

Two meta-analyses, one addressing convergent validity of RAD assessment instrumentation developed by authors and the other links between RAD and internalizing and externalizing behaviors.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Attachment- and Emotion-Focused Parenting Interventions for Child and Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors

Attachment and emotion-focused parenting interventions that targeted child mental health were significantly more effective than those that did not in reducing externalizing behavior and internalizing behavior for children aged

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

StatPearls Reactive Attachment Disorder

Describes the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of reactive attachment disorder and stresses the role of team-based interprofessional care for affected patients

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Pediatric Health Care and Attachment Disorders

This continuing education article explores attachment; and attachment theory; and attachment disorders in terms of types, risk factors, consequences, and treatment and provides implications for practice.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Maternal depression and infant attachment security

Meta-analysis included 42 studies that showed there is a significant relationship between maternal depression and infant attachment nonsecurity.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Non-suicidal self-injury and attachment trauma in adolescent inpatients with psychiatric disorders

This study examined how non-suicidal self-injury disorder differs with respect to mental disorders, gender and attachment status in adolescent psychiatric patients.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Insecure Adult Attachment and Child Maltreatment: A Meta-Analysis

Meta-analysis shows a significant positive association between insecure attachment and child maltreatment.

Child & Adolescent Mental HealthAttachment Disorders

Longitudinal Associations between Substance Use and Interpersonal Attachment Security

Meta-analysis targeting longitudinal studies of attachment and substance use, 665 effect sizes drawn from 34 samples (total N=56,721) ranging from 1 month to 20 years. Results revealed